Cataract surgery waiting time at Northam Hospital

The median wait for cataract surgery — published by the source as "Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)" — at this public hospital in the Northam area of Western Australia was 27 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 27 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 179 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 132 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 16 days in 2011–12 to 27 days in 2024–25 — up 69% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St John of God Midland Public Hospital, about 67 km away, at 23 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 11.5%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Northam Hospital	27 days	0.0%	179 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	82 days	5.1%	12672 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	106 days	11.5%	87841 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 106 days marks the national median.

St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 67 km away23 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 79 km away71 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 82 km away93 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 84 km away89 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 87 km away35 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 97 km away181 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 129 km away48 days
Narrogin HospitalWA · about 151 km away105 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Northam Hospital
WA
Australia

View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Northam Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	16	38	89
2012–13	22	45	89
2013–14	22	43	79
2014–15	19	41	83
2015–16	15	37	93
2016–17	22	51	85
2017–18	20	63	87
2018–19	23	61	84
2019–20	18	59	98
2020–21	14	77	172
2021–22	12	108	158
2022–23	13	117	133
2023–24	20	98	119
2024–25	27	82	106

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

All surgery at Northam Hospital · Cataract surgery across Australia · Cataract surgery in Western Australia